(LOUYRE-THIS OUR STILL LIFE)
Installation - University of Brighton Gallery South Gallery
November – December 2011
The work was presented as an installation as part of Cinecity.
Eden’s drawings and paintings that she had made at Louyre in
the summer were exhibited throughout the space as were artifacts
pertaining to the film, which was projected at one end of the gallery on
a continuous loop.
Themes of ‘still-life’, isolation and the animistic nature of
the great outdoor were all explored throughout the exhibition.
At the opening Eden performed three Elvis Presley tracks
accompanied by John Roseveare on guitar and myself on drums. Claudia
Barton also wandered throughout the gallery singing a beautiful
rendition of the song; ‘This their still life remains still yet still
their still life”.
“Kötting understands instinctively that, in these unsettling
and transformative times, the local in both heart and hearth needs to be
radically re-imagined as the prime locus of our needs and search for
belonging.” Gareth Evans.
‘The genius of Andrew Kötting is to marry Stan Brakhage and
Benny Hill: heart-rending visionary intensity with lurching human
comedy, funny voices, speeding physicality. An authentic poem to place,
in and of wild nature. Panoramic and intimate. And wholly absorbing.”
Iain Sinclair.